[NEohioPAL] Ancient Mariner in Canton

[Geoffrey and Rose Darling]

It is an Ancient Mariner
And he's coming up  for three
Shows in downtown Canton
August Twenty-eight, twenty-nine and Thir -ur- tee
Geoffrey Darling - that well known North-East Ohio actor with funny accent  - and 2nd April Galerie present
  
 Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner   
      A classical solo theatre voyage
              The Kathleen Howland Theatre
                                  2nd April Galerie
                   324 Cleveland Ave, Canton
             Book (330) 451-0924  -  $10 , $5 student 
   August   28-29-30   at  8pm  
  Ice mast high came floating by”  -  just the thing for a hot August night
Water, water, every where  - and lots of things to drink at the next-door bar afterwards
 
Meet Samuel Taylor Coleridge:  Self-confessed dope addict,  lazybones,  failed family man and one of English Literature’s true greats as he nears the end of his 62-year-old life. 
Geoffrey Darling's solo show examines the effect of laudanum ( alcohol  and opium ) on the great man, who is attempting to perform The Ancient Mariner without recourse to his habitual drug of choice, without his usual safety net. 
Hear also a finely spoken performance of Coleridge’s miniature masterpiece Kubla Khan  and be asked “was it written in an opium dream as the poet claimed?”  
	* Hear Frost At Midnight and The Nightingale before Darling, as Coleridge, launches into a climactic and inspiring The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.
	* Hear Coleridge battle his constant desire to run away   - from his studies, his responsibilities, his talent and his family ; the comedy of his quitting Cambridge and joining The Light Horse Dragoons  and the sadness of his inability to love his wife ‘half as much as I love my children’.  
	* Well- researched anecdotes create a journey back through his life until it is time to sweep them all away with a victorious (and sober) performance of his greatest work, The Ancient Mariner.  It’s a celebration of courage and a man's struggle to overcome his drug addiction – in just over one hour’s traffic on the stage.
Geoffrey Darling  - the actor and writer  - read the fine print -zoom buttom optional  
Geoffrey Darling has been performing The Ancient Mariner for 23 years  - long before he was ‘ancient’ – but now pushing 60 he’s getting to look like the old guy in the story  - well at least  in Dore’s drawings.   Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner  has an international flavour (Like the spelling).  Although Geoffrey Darling is an Ohio resident he is a native New Zealander and has presented the work in that country more than 100 times – at colleges, schools, and theaters all over New Zealand – and one visit to England in 1998 . 
He also performs The Gospel According to St Mark and this year began a special Prison Ministry in Ohio Institutions which is proving very popular. Cleveland’s Beck Center  (including the hugely acclaimedEquus), Actors’  Summit  ( A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Macbeth) and Magical Theater (Tuck Everlasting) are among his Ohio workplaces since arriving from New Zealand two years ago. 
For more information:  geoffrose05 at yahoo.com  should shake him from his tree.
So - zoom down I-77 for a summer evening of Coleridge - and sip at Primo's Bar next door after the show.
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